Why I Love Vinyl Records

-It reminds me of what it was like to fall in love with music for the first time. I can still remember how awesome it felt to be a 4-year-old getting to stay up late with my dad listening to old records while he taught me music history and broke down what music was all about.

-It's the way the music I love was meant to be listened to. Not for any other reason than because it was the best technology for music of the time. So everything was set up to work on vinyl. It sounds fine on CD or digital, but being that I am too young to have lived most of the music I so adore, vinyl records are the closest I get to a time machine.

-Once you play one for long enough or get an old enough copy, it gets all kinds of pops and crackles. Sure, there's such a thing as too much and that's no good, but I love the ambient, unique noise records get as they distort. It's always different and it's all a part of the experience.

-They look fucking fantastic. I can imagine being a disc jockey 30 years ago was a pain, because they're so heavy, but they're lovely. You can actually see the artwork put in to the record covers rather than just having them on a little CD case.

But, I'm not going to say they're perfect. Here are some things that suck about vinyl:

-They are finicky and fragile.

-They can not be played in a car.

-If you're in another room, in the middle of something, and the side is finished, you are musicless until you turn it over. Can someone tell me what the protocol was back when records were the only way to have music at a party? Would whoever was closest to the stereo when the album was over be at liberty to change it to whatever they want? I come from the time of 3 CD changers with repeat function. Oh or iPods I suppose.

And she gave away the secrets of her past and said "I've lost control again."